Manual of Mineral Science
23. Auflage August 2007
704 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
First published in 1848, authored by J.D. Dana, the Manual of
Mineral Science now enters its 23rd edition. This new
edition continues in the footsteps or its predecessors as the
standard textbook in Mineralogy/Mineral Science/Earth
Materials/Rocks and Minerals courses.
This new edition contains 22 chapters, instead of 14 as in the
prior edition. This is the result of having packaged coherent
subject matter into smaller, more easily accessible units.
Each chapter has a new and expanded introductory statement, which
gives the user a quick overview of what is to come. Just
before these introductions, each chapter features a new
illustration that highlights some aspect of the subject in that
particular chapter. All such changes make the text more
readable, user-friendly and searchable. Many of the first 14
chapters are reasonably independent of each other, allowing for
great flexibility in an instructor's preferred subject
sequence. The majority of illustrations in this edition were
re-rendered and/or redesigned and many new photographs, mainly of
mineral specimens, were added.
NEW Thoroughly Revised Lab
Manual ISBN13:
978-0-471-77277-4
Also published by John Wiley & Sons, the thoroughly updated
Laboratory Manual: Minerals and Rocks: Exercises in Crystal and
Mineral Chemistry, Crystallography, X-ray Powder Diffraction,
Mineral and Rock Identification, and Ore Mineralogy, 3e, is for
use in the mineralogy laboratory and covers the subject matter in
the same sequence as the Manual of Mineral Science, 23e.
2. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERALS
3. ELEMENTS OF CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY
4. ASPECTS OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
5. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF MINERALS
6. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: EXTERNAL SYMMETRY OF MINERALS
7. INTERNAL ORDER AND SYMMETRY IN MINERALS
8. CRYSTAL PROJECTIONS
9. SELECTED POINT GROUPS AND FURTHER ASPECTS OF SPACE GROUPS
10. CRYSTAL GROWTH AND DEFECTS; TWINNING, COLOR, AND
MAGNETISM
11. MINERAL STABILITY AND PHASE DIAGRAMS
12. POST-CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESSES IN MINERALS
13. OPTICAL MICROSCOPY
14. ANALYTICAL AND IMAGING METHODS IN MINERAL SCIENCE
15. CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY AND SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS OF NATIVE
ELEMENTS, SULFIDES, AND SULFOSALTS
16. CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY AND SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS OF OXIDES,
HYDROXIDES, AND HALIDES
17. CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY AND SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS OF CARBONATES,
NITRATES, BORATES, SULFATES, CHROMATES, TUNGSTATES, MOLYBDATES,
PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES AND VANADATES
18. CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF ROCK-FORMING SILICATES
19. SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS OF ROCK-FORMING SILICATES
20. GEM MINERALS
21. MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES: INTRODUCTION TO ROCK TYPES
22. DETERMINATIVE TABLES
APPENDIX 1. Outstanding Contributions to the Mineral
Sciences
APPENDIX 2. Development of Models for the Atom
APPENDIX 3. Developing Hermann-Mauguin Symbols for Symmetry
Notation
APPENDIX 4. Distribution of forms in the 32 Point Groups, Arranged
by Crystal System
APPENDIX 5. Space Groups as an Expression of Morphology and
Structure
MINERAL INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
James D. Dana (1813 - 1895) graduated from Yale University in 1833. He joined a U.S. exploring expedition to the South Seas (1838 - 42), acting as a geologist and zoologist. His contributions to the American Journal of Science stimulated U.S. geologic inquiry. His research into the formation of the Earth's continents and oceans led him to believe in the progressive evolution of the Earth's physical features over time. By the end of his life he also came to accept the evolution of living things, as articulated by Charles Darwin. During his lifetime, and largely under his leadership, U.S. geology grew from a collection and classification of unrelated facts into a mature science.
